Philippa Gregory Quotes & Sayings

“I don't much like Singapore. It's very big, very modern and very urbanised. As a rule, I prefer older places where you get a sense of the history.”

“The moment that changed me for ever was when I had my first seminar with my history professor at the University of Sussex. I realised that history would answer all the questions I had spent my life asking. It was an extraordinary moment.”

“When I was a child I wanted to be a vet. I'd come home with "lost" kittens and dogs. My mother would tell me to put them back.”

“Being a stepmother has worked out very well for me. I love my stepchildren very much.”

“I love going to London for a couple of days but I need to be in the country. I like the silence, the smell and the seasonal changes, especially in spring and summer. I really feel that I belong there.”

“I love reading and I love thinking - the reason that I love my books so much is that in order to write them I have to read and to think for years at a time about the same period of time.”

“Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.”

“At the end of the day, I'm writing in a genre that isn't highly regarded.”

“I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.”

“I don't shop as much as a lot of people but I do like designer clothes.”